I was describing to someone how Wikipedia works:
"anyone can edit" etc.
He answered with this argument:
"Wikipedia is the triumph of the average person!
of the man in the street!)"
(average meaning: not good, not bad, just OK)
I asked "why?"
His explanation:
"Great brilliant works are built by individuals.
Groups of people can only create average works.
If someone writes something good in the wiki,
other average persons will intervene with his/her
work and turn it into an average work. If someone
writes something bad in the wiki, the others will
again turn it into something of average value.
with your system (meaning: Wikipedia's system)
you can be sure that you will never create
something too bad but also never something too
good. You can create only average articles."
The idea behind his argument was that Wikipedia
will be a good resource as long as it attracts
good cotnributors. but it will soon become an
average site/encyclopaedia because it allows
anyone to join the project and edit, and most
people are just average persons and not brilliant
writers.
Do you think it's true? and how can we answer
this argument?
--Optim
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On Sunday 28 July 2002 03:00 am, The Cunctator wrote:
> What are the articles this person has been changing?
For 66.108.155.126:
20:08 Jul 27, 2002 Computer
20:07 Jul 27, 2002 Exploit
20:07 Jul 27, 2002 AOL
20:05 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
20:05 Jul 27, 2002 Leet
20:03 Jul 27, 2002 Root
20:02 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
19:59 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
19:58 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
19:54 Jul 27, 2002 Principle of least astonishment
19:54 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
19:52 Jul 27, 2002 Trance music
19:51 Jul 27, 2002 Trance music
For 208.24.115.6:
20:20 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
For 141.157.232.26:
20:19 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
Most of these were complete replacements with discoherent statements.
Such as "TAP IS THE ABSOLUTE DEFINITION OF THE NOUN HACKER" for Hacker.
For the specifics follow http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Special:Ipblocklist
and look at the contribs.
--mav
Forwarding.
Pine
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From: Jakob Voß <Jakob.Voss(a)gbv.de>
Date: Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 1:14 PM
Subject: [Wikidata] Call for Contributions to WikiCite Satellite Cologne
2020
To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear Wikidata-Community!
We are happy to announce the WikiCite Satellite Cologne 2020 and looking
forward to your contributions. The event will take place at May 6th -
8th 2020 at GESIS in Cologne, organized together with ZB MED and FH
Köln. The event aims to connect local library institutions and academic
researchers with the WikiCite community in their shared interest in an
open infrastructure about open citations and linked bibliographic data
for research and education. See https://w.wiki/9jj for details!
Submission deadline for contributions is February 16th 2020. The
conference will contain different forms of contributions. Please specify
the format and how much time you are going to need. We especially
welcome topics such as (but not limited to):
- use of bibliographic data in Wikibase and Wikimedia projects
- applications and tools to process, analyze and visualize scientific
information
- strategies to enhance the bibliographic information on large scale
- bibliometric analyses and quantitative science studies
- ethical and social aspects of data collection and analysis
- open citations and open bibliographic data
Please suggest your contribution with a short abstract (max. 500 words),
contact information, preferred language (German or English) and its
type, which has to be one of the following options:
- hands-on workshops: practical tutorials with up to 30 participants
each (up to 150 minutes), e.g. introduction to Wikidata or other
Wikimedia projects, introduction to bibliometrics, how-to and
best-practice guides around tools
- talks: traditional presentations (10-30 minutes including questions)
- discussions: self-organized barcamp-like open discussion with up to 30
participants (up to 60 minutes)
- demos: interactive demo of a tool or prototype (10-15 minutes)
- posters: visually appealing and informative description of a topic (0
minutes) to be shown at the conference site. It’s also possible to
provide a poster without physically participating, please indicate in
your submission
All participants can also give spontaneous lightning talks.
Contributions can be submitted openly in the Wikidata wiki. Both English
and German contributions will be accepted. Please create an account (any
Wikimedia project such as Wikipedia will do) and submit your
contribution via the event page (https://w.wiki/9jj#Metadata). The
submission form opens a template to publish your submission with full
title and additional information.
Looking forward to seeing you!
Jakob Voß
--
Jakob Voß <jakob.voss(a)gbv.de>
Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG) / Common Library Network
Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
+49 (0)551 39-31031, http://www.gbv.de/
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From: Jaqen <nataliofosco(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 11:52 AM
Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Survey on data visualization for Wikipedia
To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <
wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi!
As a part of my job at OBC Transeuropa <https://www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng>
among the other things I contribute to Wikipedia and Commons with graphs
and text coming from EDJNet <https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/>, a
data journalism network we promote that is publishing its content with a
free license.
In the attempt of inserting graphs using MediaWiki instead of svg images I
realised the tool now available are cumbersome and there is the
possibilities for improvement.
Thus we are making a survey to understand if Wikipedia users are interested
in having better tools, allowing to publish better graphs more easily. So
I ask you to please spend a few minutes of your time to let us now what you
think :)
https://surveys.europeandatajournalism.eu/quiz/data-visualization-for-wikip…
The survey is anonymous. You will be given the opportunity to leave your
e-mail address to receive updates on developments, but this is optional.
The results of the survey will be published on EDJNet and on Meta, and I
will also link them here.
Let me know if you have any questions! Thank you!
Niccolò "Jaqen" Caranti
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